The poems of Banjo Paterson will live forever more <br />They have become quite famous beyond Australia's shore <br />The author of The Man from Snowy River and Clancy of the Overflow <br />He passed on in his seventies more than sixty ago. <br /> <br />The stories and poems of Banjo are part of Aussie folklore <br />Of Australia's best known writers one of the top three or four <br />His song Waltzing Matilda should be Australia's National Anthem many say <br />The poet is gone forever but his words live on today. <br /> <br />The poems of Banjo Paterson of legendary stuff are made <br />He was a natural wordsmith a master of his trade <br />He knew about the hard life in the days of the pioneer <br />And his poems on bush people to real life seems so near. <br /> <br />In the annals of Australian literature a leading man of rhyme <br />Along with Henry Lawson a legend of his time <br />Saltbush Bill and A Bush Christening, Mulga Bill's Bicycle and many more <br />The poems and songs of Banjo Paterson will live forever more.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-poems-of-banjo-paterson/
